A reactor at a nuclear power plant near Saint Petersburg was shut down on Wednesday because of a technical fault, the plant's management said.
A reactor at a nuclear power plant near
Saint
Petersburg
was shut down on Wednesday because of a technical
fault, the plant's management said.
Reactor No 4 at Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant was shut down at
4.25 am
(0025 GMT) because of a broken circulation pump,
according to a statement.
Radioactivity in the surrounding area is within permitted levels, the statement
said.
The shutdown means only two of the four reactors at the plant are now in
operation. Reactor No 1 was stopped at the start of the month for planned
repair work.
Situated in the town of
Sosnovy Bor
, 70
kilometers (45 miles) from
Saint Petersburg
,
Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant (which still uses the Soviet name for
Saint
Petersburg
) has the same type of reactors as those used at
Chernobyl
.
On
April 26, 1986
, an
explosion in Reactor No 4 at the Ukrainian facility caused the worst disaster
in civilian nuclear history.
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